Lachlan Kermode
Graduate Student
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLachlan Kermode is a machine learning and systems engineer with a decade of experience building software at the hardware-software boundary, specializing in streaming engines and vector databases implemented in Rust. Currently a Brown University graduate student pursuing distributed systems research alongside a PhD in Modern Culture and Media, he blends rigorous systems engineering with theoretical perspectives on computing. His background spans full-stack and DevOps work—React, Vue, Python, Go, Ansible, and Terraform—plus production distributed systems in Node, Java, and Flink. He has applied ML in practice and research, co-authoring a NeurIPS paper on synthetic data, and has shaped live platforms through CI/CD and infrastructure work. Based in Providence, RI, Lachlan combines hands-on engineering with scholarly inquiry, making him adept at translating cutting-edge research into deployable systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Auckland Grammar SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Modern Culture and Media, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Modern Culture and Media at Brown UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Princeton University
English, Italian, Latin
Github Skills (176)
terraform10
gcp10
typesetting10
google-cloud10
excel10
istio10
openstreetmap10
monitoring10
javascript10
kustomize10
spreadsheet10
api10
compiler10
grpc10
markup10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
breezykermo/lk_com
May 2019 - Jul 2026
personal website [no JS]
Contributions:30 PRs, 169 pushes, 30 branches in 7 years 2 months
js
bellingcat/ukraine-timemap
Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
TimeMap instance for Civilian Harm in Ukraine
Contributions:8 reviews, 422 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 5 months
openstreetmaptimemapcivilian-harmdockerjavascript
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